CANVA TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS 2026 (How to start using Canva step by step)

About this video

This is a ground-up Canva tutorial for beginners. Hayes walks through the homepage search and template library, Projects, and the Pro-only Brand Kit for storing logos, colours and fonts for one-click use. Starting a design uses preset sizes or a custom size with units changed, for example, from pixels to inches. Inside the editor she covers zoom, adding and deleting pages, the Design tab for templates, and the context-sensitive top toolbar: fonts (free versus Pro crown-marked), size, colour palette and eyedropper colour-matching, alignment, letter and line spacing, transparency, and text effects such as shadow, hollow, neon and glitch. The Elements tab provides graphics, photos, videos, audio and frames; she shows snapping guides for centring, flipping, cropping, the Pro Background Remover, photo editing, filters and shadows, and generating images with Canva AI. She also covers layers and Position, the Text tab and font combinations, Uploads, Draw tools, Projects and Apps such as a QR code generator. File settings include print bleed and rulers/guides. She finishes with Share options — downloading as JPG, PNG, PDF, SVG or MP4, using the Pro template link to sell editable templates — and Canva AI on the homepage to generate designs, images, documents, code such as an interactive flashcard game, and, with Pro, video clips.

Key takeaways

• Use presets or custom sizes and set units first; templates mean you rarely start from scratch
• Crown symbols mark Pro-only fonts, elements and features such as Brand Kit, Resize and Background Remover
• The top toolbar changes with the selection — use it for fonts, colour-matching, spacing, transparency and effects
• Use layers/Position, snapping guides, print bleed and rulers to align and layer designs professionally
• Share via download in multiple file types, via a Pro template link for buyers, or via Canva AI to generate designs, images, documents and code

Episode details: published January 20, 2026 · 27:53 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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